The U.S. this week charged Hossein Hatefi Ardakani and Gary Lam with export violations after DOJ said they helped illegally procure hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of U.S. and foreign-made components for Iran. Along with the indictment, the two were sanctioned by the Treasury Department for using companies across several countries to buy parts for Iran’s unmanned drone program.
Country of origin cases
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Solar panel exporters are hoping to extend the deadline to file a petition for reheraing en banc with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a case on whether President Donald Trump legally revoked a Section 201 tariff exclusion on bifacial solar panels. Asking the court for 14 more days to file the petition, the exporters, led by the Solar Energy Industries Association, said "good cause" exists for the extension (Solar Energy Industries Association v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 22-1392).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Court of International Trade in a Dec. 14 opinion granted the government's request for a voluntary remand in a duty evasion case on hardwood plywood from China in light of two recent judicial opinions. One decision saw the Commerce Department reverse course on whether exporter Vietnam Finewood Co.'s goods are subject to the antidumping and countervailing duty orders, while the other said it was illegal for CBP not to give parties to Enforce and Protect Act actions access to business confidential information.
The Commerce Department "ignores critical facts" in its threshold for differentiating between different pasta types in an antidumping duty review, exporter La Molisana said in a Dec. 13 reply brief brief (La Molisana v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-2060).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its mandate in a case on the countervailing duty investigation on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from South Korea. In its opinion, the appellate court upheld the Commerce Department's finding that the Korean government didn't provide a countervailable benefit through its provision of electricity to respondents (see 2310230013). Commerce sufficiently carried out a less-than-adequate-remuneration analysis after the court rejected its original preferential rate analysis in 2019 (POSCO v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 22-1525).
Multiple types of furniture imported by Moe’s Home Collection are covered by the antidumping duty order on wooden bedroom furniture from China, Commerce said Nov. 22 in a scope ruling.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Dec. 11-13 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York: